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Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy and Community Work (GC-NTCW) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

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Intended learning outcomes

  • Provides graduates with the theoretical and advanced skill base for working with narrative approaches with individuals, families and communities across the life course, particularly in the areas of trauma and recovery.
  • Prepares graduates for narrative practice in diverse cultural contexts.
  • Introduces the specific theories and advanced skills of narrative therapy.
  • Engages students in critical reflection of their own practice development.

Generic skills

  • Critical thinking and analysis.
  • Thinking creatively.
  • Understanding of social, ethical and cultural context.
  • Communicating knowledge intelligibly and creatively.
  • High level personal autonomy and accountability.

Graduate attributes

Graduates of this course should acquire:

Knowledge

 

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy and Community Work degree should have:

  • A body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in narrative therapy and community work, and how they relate to professional practice.

Skills

 

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy and Community Work degree should have:

  • Cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of narrative therapy and community work theories and skills; and to reflect critically on the theory and professional practice of narrative therapy and community work.
  • Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories of narrative therapy to different bodies of knowledge or practice.
  • Cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex ideas concepts at an abstract level.

Last updated: 10 November 2023